¹¹ Is Gilead wicked?^(A)
    Its people are worthless!
Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal?^(B)
    Their altars will be like piles of stones
    on a plowed field.^(C)

¹¹ “Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings,
    these have become altars for sinning.^(A)

⁸ Gilead is a city of evildoers,^(A)
    stained with footprints of blood.

¹⁵ “Though you, Israel, commit adultery,
    do not let Judah become guilty.

“Do not go to Gilgal;^(A)
    do not go up to Beth Aven.^[a](B)
    And do not swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives!’^(C)